Simmons Drums 2

You can edit your set without having to go through the tedious drum module button pressing, which makes this much closer to being professional in that it’s easy to make changes without mashing the buttons on the unit 50 times to cycle through to a setting you wanna change. Now you just slide up on a fader graphic in the app’s UI. Slick. It works smooth. I cannot BT pipe songs into the module and through my amp, but that would be sexy, if the app dev team would be willing to do that. But the only thing missing is an easy way to factory reset the drum module. That said, now that I can fix each trigger to my liking quick and efficiently, it makes both the Titan 70 set I own, as well as the app, a much better experience than before. It “unlocks its potential” I suppose. I used to have a Roland TD-10 and I loved the physical fader/mixers. This brings that experience to my phone screen. My cymbal gets lost in the mix when I’m wailing on the drums? No sweat. Just turn down the set quickly, crank the cymbals, and turn up the amp. Want reverb on your snare? Just go into the kit edit settings and turn the reverb knob up. Want to make your set stereo while using L and R cables into a PA? It’s just digital knobs on your screen, easy to move half your set left and half to the right. The app doesn’t do anything terribly fancy, but it makes customization super easy and quick. That’s what I need. 🤘

A lot of things in the app are buggy at best, or completely broken otherwise… the play along feature is a great example… i’m still trying to figure out what the point of it is… The phone connects to the drum module with Bluetooth and yet when you try to play along, the song plays through the iPhone speakers and will not play through the drum kit. So if you put headphones on or anything like that, you drown out what’s coming through the iPhone. Not to mention, if I wanted to do it this way I could simply go to my music app and turn the song on… What is the point of connecting the Bluetooth and doing it this way if you’re still going to make me listen to the song through the device speakers instead of having it play through the headset on the drum module via Bluetooth? There is the loop feature… but it is also hopelessly broken… start playing a song from play along mode and then go ahead and try to stop it, start it over from the beginning and then start the loop… you can’t. It doesn’t matter how you rewind the song, it always starts playing automatically before you can even start the loop recording process… You can pause it, you can stop the music, but the second that you rewind it back to the beginning it automatically starts playing again, making it virtually impossible to start a loop from the beginning of the song. The rewind button is useless… It doesn’t work half of the time. Overall, the software is completely broken and should not have been released yet. This is beyond simple development bugs that need to be fixed and can be dealt with later… This app for the most part performs extremely poorly and does not do what it is intended to do half the time. don’t get me started on the drum kit itself. I’ve owned mine for two weeks now, and the cymbals are falling apart.

The app is great and it works really well with the Titan 70 set. I assume it works just as well with the 50 but I don’t have one to verify. The biggest miss in in the “Play Along” feature. You search for a song and you can play anything in your Apple Music (you have to pay monthly if you don’t wanna buy songs, I get Apple Music included with my phone plan) but it doesn’t remember recently played songs. There is a whole blank page there under the search bar that they could totally included “Recently Played Track” and it would really take the app to the next level. Or let me favorite songs like Songster does. The search is clunky and either of these features would take this app to 5 stars. I can’t find anything else I wish it had, other than uploading your own sounds to the kits, but I think that’s a limitation of the Titan 70 and not really app side.